For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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